The Grifters

Most films have one, and only one, protagonist around whom the story is told. But "The Grifters" has three, all of them petty swindlers, desperate for quick cash or good odds at a "long con". And it's the personal relationships... Full review

Take three fabulous actors -- Benning, Houston and Cusack -- stir in a tight little film noir, and voila here you have it: A highly underrated gem that I always find myself recommending to people. I reccomend it to you too... Full review

Smart story line with great acting make this classic movie still relevant. Anjelica Houston's performance is edgy, cool and compelling, One of my favorites.... Full review

Here is a modern-day "film noir," if I ever saw one. You get sleazy characters with no morals, brutal attitudes, some interesting photography and a story that is not exactly a happy one - all the ingredients of a good... Full review

I dont see any good in this movie. I expected this to be a good one.I wasted my time. I saw some naked scenes!!! and and some unwanted relations. It did not meet the movie quality.... Full review

One would think that with three hot actors like those featured on the poster of Martin Scorcese's "The Grifters", you can't go wrong. Well, you can. The first ten minutes of the movie were great. They made the viewer believe that... Full review

The Grifters sees John Cusack play Roy Dillon, a grifter whose loyalties are split between his con-artist girlfriend (Annette Bening) and his estranged mother (Anjelica Huston) in a tangled web of deceit with bloody consequences.Cusack puts in a good performance... Full review

Stephen Frears directs this amazing adaption of a Jim Thompson book, which deals with three grifters (a person who swindles one by means of deception or fraud) who are tied to each other relationship-wise. Roy Dillion (John Cusack) is a... Full review

The classic con thriller;"The Grifters" is a suspenseful,stylishly and explorative look of these three main characters of selfish, selfcentered con-artists that gave them excectly no-confidence that they just need to depend from. Anjelica Hustoon gives the performance of her career as... Full review

This movie had a interesting story, an unbelievable cast, good directing, and pretty much everything it needed to be a four star movie. Annette Benning gives a great performance, and it is a crime that she still doesn't have an oscar... Full review

another critical success with The Grifters....A British film-maker noted for tackling fact-based subjects, including police corruption and the Irish troubles....best director....the Best director category.... ... Full Review

When one of his cheap cons doesn't fool a bartender with no sense of humor, Roy ends up in the hospital, where Lilly meets his girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening), a kittenish mixer with her own plans. to French Colonial Africa with great success, but The Grifters brings Thompson and his characters back to the Los Angeles bars and racetracks that are their proper habitat. ... Full Review

In "The Grifters," director Stephen Frears renders that cutthroat universe with adept strokes. For all its moments, there's a somewhat empty cumulative effect to the movie. Cusack uses his baby-faced, sleepy-eyed demeanor to good effect. ... Full Review

The American Heritage College Dictionary Stephen Frears' "The Grifters" is almost too cynical and mean-spirited for its own good. While "The Grifters" is stylishly photographed by Oliver Stapleton, well acted by the three leads, and guided with a steady hand by Frears, I still felt like there could have been more. ... Full Review

More of a character study than a con game, this movie will please those who like to have something to think about -- and aren't afraid to face the shadier side of humanity. Alone, each character is only casually interesting; together, it's such a complicated mesh of passions, secrets, and double-crosses. ... Full Review

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By Charlie Huston Ballantine Books. 319 pages. $25. Web is a likable slacker caught in a dark comically tangled tale. He lives in L.A. Used to be a teacher. ... Full Article

Pat Hingle, 84, a pug-faced character actor who played Commissioner Gordon in four "Batman" films and -- on the other side of the law -- roughed up Anjelica Huston as a bookie in "The Grifters," died Jan. 3 at his... ... Full Article

The Grifters are perhaps the least recalled constituent of the mid-'90s indie-rock brigade. Having lost their status to more prolific bands like Guided by Voices, more pointed bands like Modest Mouse, or better bands like Pavement or Yo La Tengo,... ... Full Article

Director Stephen Frears ( The Grifters and High Fidelity ) escorts us through the human drama and noirish underbelly of immigrant-inundated London, in which greed, bureaucratic red tape and desperation intertwine and perpetuate a black market in human organs. ... Full Article

Set in 1930s Britain, this drama surrounds one family's struggles to survive during the Depression with their values and relationships intact. The eponymous protagonist is an Irish Catholic seven-year-old boy growing up in Liverpool. ... Full Article